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ELEAGUE has partnered with FACEIT to host the Overwatch Open, which has a massive $300,000 prize pool. The competition will feature an online portion for both the European league and the American league, with the top performers heading to Turner Studios’ ELEAGUE arena in Atlanta for the regional finals and …
Read More »ESL hosting Heroes of the Storm regional at gamescom
ESL will host the European Heroes of the Storm Fall Regional at gamescom in August. The competition will take place on the ESL main stage between August 17th and 19th. $100,000 is on the line, along with a spot at the Fall Championship that will be held at BlizzCon 2016. …
Read More »Fnatic finally sign an Overwatch team
Fnatic have finally entered the Overwatch scene, after much speculation, by signing a mostly American roster. The new team includes: Andr iddqd” Dahlstrm, Scott custa” Kennedy, Oliver Vonethil” Lager, Casey buds” McIlwaine, Warsi Faraaz Stoop” Waris, Matthew coolmatt69” Iorio and finally Robert Roflgator” Malecki, who will act as the team’s …
Read More »Crytek partners with ESL for Warface eSports
Crytek and ESL have partnered in order to run Warface eSports competitions. The free to play shooter from Crytek will become a part of ESL’s Go4 series, which sees many other games run weekly competitions with a monthly final. This will be the case for Warface when the Go4Warface tournament …
Read More »Sporting Lisbon enters eSports with top Portuguese FIFA player
Portugese football club Sporting Lisbon has entered the eSports world by signing top Portuguese FIFA player Francisco "Quinzas" Cruz. The 21 year old player has been in the FIFA scene since he was just 14, and became the youngest ever FIFA World Champion in 2011. Cruz is one of the …
Read More »EVO organising its first Japanese event
Fighting game tournament EVO is organising a spin off event known as EVO Japan. The competition will unsurprisingly take place in Japan, although no specific location or dates were revealed. More information on the event is set to be announced at the Tokyo Games Show, which takes place in September. …
Read More »More people watched EVO on Twitch than ESPN
EVO’s first ever broadcast on TV pulled in an average of 201,000 viewers, but that still wasn’t enough to beat Twitch’s concurrent numbers. The final of the Street Fighter V competition was broadcast on ESPN2 on Sunday evening as well as being streamed on Twitch. While ESPN2 averaged 201,000 viewers …
Read More »Capcom Cup prize pool to be crowd funded
The prize pool for the Capcom Cup will be partially crowd funded with in game Street Fighter V items. At EVO Capcom announced the new Capcom Pro Tour Premier Package DLC for Street Fighter V, which includes a new stage and exclusive costumes. A percentage of each sale will go …
Read More »Dota 2 gets weekend tournaments for everyone to enter
Valve has added weekend tournaments to Dota 2, allowing everyone to take part in some competitive action. The Summer Battle Cup season will feature new tournaments every Saturday at 7pm until the end of August. Teams of five players will party up and take part in an eight team single …
Read More »$15,000 cosplay competition to take place at The International 6
The International 6 will feature a $15,000 cosplay competition, giving the best Dota 2 cosplayers in the world a chance to show off on the biggest stage of the year. For the first time ever the best cosplayers will take to the main stage at The International to battle it …
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